Category: Artwork

Soooo focus is a problem for me. I tend to wander all over the artistic landscape, from bonsai trees to illustrations on denim, to cartooning, to leather burning, and now, lately (slowly) comic book lettering. I’ve just completed my second book, by the amazing writer and publisher Andrew Lorenz, @AndrewLorenz17, of S17.ca fame. He let…

In the spring I broke down and admitted I needed a full fledged laptop for client meetings. I also admitted I’d like a tablet for certain games (don’t judge me). And that I should get back into sketching after my flurry of renovations was complete (like they ever are). So after much humming, no hawing,…

With this pyrography leather burn Chris Barrett of AltGuild brought me in to help with a special traveller’s notebook, one, that would illustrate the owners’ travels and her homeland as well. After some initial dialogue we went back and forth on the concepts and came up with a design that we were sure would be appreciated…

Sarah: You don’t by any chance know the way through this labyrinth, do you? The Worm: Who, me? No, I’m just a worm. Say, come inside, and meet the missus. I think I spent as much time on the concept sketches for this leather midori style notebook cover as I did in the execution of…

Toothless is one of the coolest dragons ever. EVER. And is an absolute joy to draw. He can be serious, silly, or downright dangerous, however you want him to depict him, he’s been that for the cartoons. For these client ordered pieces, we went for a silly moments peeking onto a notebook cover with a…

Each year, provided we get enough snow, I pile it up and carve it up for the kids. Ok, two lies right there. We ALWAYS have enough snow, this being Winnipeg and all, and it’s more for me as I don’t let the kids touch/play/near the sculptures till the melt happens. Scroll down to see…

Polar bears will always have a special place in my heart. I love seeing them at the zoo but really love seeing them in Churchill, MB, where I grew up with some pretty formidable playmates wandering around the backyard occacionally.

This painting was done for my daughter illustrating one of Aesop’s Fables wherein the character of the book takes every wordly possession, converts it to a large lump of gold, then promptly forgets that they buried it beside this massive well. I think I’d remember which well, but maybe wells were more common in Aesop’s…

Three pieces of chess done in watercolour. Originally I painted these with the intention of making them into posters for chess tournaments that I was going to in Vancouver back in 1999. I moved back to Winnipeg before they were made so they have sat around, unused, and not looked at for a very long…

Suddenly, and without explanation, my adobe CC Photoshop install started giving me really small, really tiny, menus. Top bar menu, tool menus, palettes, everything menu related, is now reduced in size to almost unusability. Even the intro screen is tiny. The images are fine, and oddly enough, when clicking on a menu item the drop